Best Local Country Artist

Best TV Hair

1. Paula Sands (KWQC TV6)

2. Jessica Tighe (KWQC TV6)

3. Sharon DeRycke (KWQC TV6)

Best Overblown Local News Story

1. Weather

2. Casinos moving

3. Elections

Best Complaint About the Quad Cities

1. Nothing to do

2. Road conditions

3. Traffic

Most Dangerous Intersection

Although singers/songwriters Adrianne "Dri" Verhoeven and Suzannah Johannes both call Lawrence, Kansas, home, their styles and their paths to musical careers couldn't be more different.

Verhoeven has been involved with a wide variety of music her entire life, while Johannes just discovered her love for the guitar in the past few years. Verhoeven works with neo-soul beats, while Johannes primarily writes with her guitar.

The two women will perform February 13 at Huckleberry's pizza parlor in Rock Island in a show presented by Daytrotter.com.

I was angered by the utterly uninformed op-ed piece by a guest columnist Mark Hendrickson on an issue of great importance to our national security. (See "Should the Senate Ratify the U.N. Sea Treaty?" River Cities' Reader Issue 670, February 7-13, 2008.) For starters: the LOS Treaty gives no substantive responsibility to the U.N. - nor, for that matter, did the U.N. "adopt it" as Mr. Hendrickson's screed erroneously states; "U.N." appears in its title merely because the diplomatic conference that negotiated it was convened 35 years ago pursuant to a U.N. General Assembly Resolution.